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Then he thought he might as well have done Waffles a little more. 'Confound it! exclaimed Sponge, 'I don't do myself justice! I'm too much of a gentleman! I should have had five 'under'd such an ass as Waffles deserves to be done!
Buckram nodding his head at the horse as he spoke, 'and 'ow that he'd given the matter o' two 'under'd or I'm not sure it weren't two 'under'd-and-fifty guineas for 'im, and 'Well, interrupted Mr. Waffles, tired of his verbosity, 'and what did they say about the horse? 'Why, continued Mr.
'HOLD HARD, gentlemen, roared Jack, clapping spurs into his grey, or rather, into his lordship's grey, dashing in front, and drawing the horse across the road to stop the progression of the field. 'Whatever you do, pray let them get away! Pray don't spoil your own sport! Pray remember they're his lordship's hounds! that they cost him five-and-twenty under'd two thousand five under'd a year!
'If that 'orse were down in Leicestersheer, added he, 'he'd fetch three 'under'd guineas. Sir Richard would 'ave him in a minnit that he would! added he, with a stamp of his foot as he saw the animal beginning to set up his back and wince at the approach of the lad. But to our story. The horse now stood staring on view: fire in his eye, and vigour in his every limb.
I vithered vith despair, Missis VOULD ring the parler bell, And call up Jeames in Buckley Square. "Last year he visper'd 'Mary Ann, Ven I've an under'd pound to spare, To take a public is my plan, And leave this hojous Buckley Square. O how my gentle heart did bound, To think that I his name should bear. 'Dear Jeames. says I, 'I've twenty pound; And gev them him in Buckley Square.
As it was, he did not spend a halfpenny upon anything but hunting; and his hunting, though well, was still economically done, costing him some couple of thousand a year, to which, for the sake of euphony, Jack used to add an extra five hundred; 'two thousand five under'd a year, five-and-twenty under'd a year, sounding better, as Jack thought, and more imposing, than a couple of thousand, or two thousand, a year.
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